Can one like/love anyone more than oneself?

Question

Think about it in terms of mind. It is NOT about can you give your food to your kid and sleep hungry?

When you like someone, you like them due to their relation with you? Then can you like anyone more that yourself?

Answer 1

yes it's possible, but the love given will be unhealthy or a bit twisted because loving someone more than yourself is a form of idolatry. you will be more focussed on pleasing that person, even at your own expense, the way some cultures in literature did to appease an angry god. this behavior is self-destructive because you are so focussed on building up the other person that you fail to build yourself. when you don't have enough love in your heart for yourself, you cannot give it in a pure form. however, when you love yourself the love you give will be genuine and plentiful because you have experienced it firsthand.

Answer 2

Yes you can but if it gets to that stage where you love them more than yourself it like you are worshipping them and the bible say Do not worship any other God expect him  that is in the 10 commandment exodus 21:1 to the end

Answer 3

I have. One of them died. It was strange to keep going...I tried bargaining as many do...but that didn't do a thing...the thing was...I respected them more than myself...I found life super bright in their prescence...I was angry at them sometimes but not as often as I have been angry at myself. I always found them like a sun and me a flower growing towards them. I like myself when I exhibit their qualities. It was not something fleeting as a superficial aquaintance but yes, I think that is the nature of love. Love is a desirable state but harder to come by than we pretend to get through our days. But yes, what you are asking...I have liked others more than myself...but it isn't easy to come to that, or something that can follow a set path. Many relatives that "ought" to like each other do not...but it is necessary to know someone to truly like someone more than yourself...to know and understand a person deeply and not fleetingly or otherwise it is based on an action or coincidence and not the persons soul.

Answer 4

When the other is seen as one's very self, in the sense that ultimately the other's and one's own self are one at the centre, there is no difference.

Answer 5

aah..aa.. No, can you love someone more then yourself? yes, i am not talking about kids as you said. But yes, if you are selfless person or real angel or just plain out of goodness of your heart. but yes, you do! and why? I just don't know. although, i don't think there are many of them out there in this days and age to be honest. so don't hold your breath. But, the way i see is that world has became really a haven of evil, in result of your good act can be seen at times as ulterior motives and only one who can understand that feelings that the one who actually experienced it for real.

          About your question which is slightly different then my answer to you above, which i would say, when you suddenly like someone so much that you could do anything for them or due to there relation with you, it's weary. If depends on what relationship it is. like husband-wife or boyf-girlfriend or just friend?

Answer 6

yes, but it's not healthy. You always need to look after yourself first (without being totally selfish) or you will strugle to know who you are and what you stand for.

P.s. if this is about a relationship; nobody likes a doormat. Without an opinion this is what you could become.

Answer 7

You.  You can care so much

for another until that feeling

moves beyond self, or me,

me.

Answer 8

Yes, it can be possible.  

I think that the ideal, most romantic marriages are supposed to be like that, when both partners love each other more than themselves and are willing to die for each other, kind of like Romeo and Juliet.

When one loves someone more than oneself isn't necessarily a bad thing as a couple of answers above mine say.  It doesn't mean one has to be a "doormat."

Answer 9

yes..

Answer 10

Is someones ego been telling them to ask questions,

most people have a problem at times with there own identity and aspire to be someone they look up to and admire,so the answer would be yes.

Answer 11

Girls can.  This is the way they're made, by-and-large.